> No, I would prefer that the rally organizers blocked a WWP speaker because
> you folks defend Chinese fascist regimes that suppress trade unions and put
> dissidents in slave labor camps.
That's a misuse of the term 'fascism', but in any case we have been critical of the rightward trend of the leadership of the Chinese government and party since the 1970's. At that time we published a pamphlet entitled "China - the Suppression of the Left" based on articles in WW. Do you believe that U.S. subversion and conquest of China would improve things for the people, raise wages, and so on? Did that happen in the USSR? We don't think it would happen in China, so we defend China -against- US imperialism.
> And that you are the equivalent of
> Holocaust-deniers in pretending mass rape and murder of civilians was not
> used by the Serbian regime as a weapon of war.
There were atrocities on all sides in the war. I don't deny there were Serbian atrocities and I hope you won't deny the Croatian and Albanian atrocities. However, evidence that these atrocities took place at the will of the Milosevic government seems to be surprisingly lacking in The Hague. In any case, our issue here was the murder of civilians by the United States government, and there is no question about the involvement of the national Democratic Party in THAT. Who is denier of atrocities here, I ask rhetorically.
> And that you worship a North
> Korean regime that has created a state to rival 1984 and starved the
> population through its insane policies.
I'm a materialist. I don't worship anything. The US has occupied the southern half of the Korean peninsula for over 50 years with a nuclear force. If you don't think this has affected the ways in which socialism has been implemented in the DPRK, you aren't thinking about it. The truth about the US massacres of civilians during the Korean War is only now coming out. On a practical level, we want US troops out of Korea and you presumably want them to stay there.
All of these 'charges' basically come down to the fact that we are socialists and anti-imperialists and we really mean it.
> That too many progressive groups wait for pressure from more moderate forces
> to exclude the WWP is to their discredit. The WWP should be excluded from
> rallies not because they attack other groups politics but because their own
> politics are so henious. I wouldn't care if the KKK was against the war on
> Iraq; I'd want them excluded from the platform as well.
You want us off the platform because of our newspaper articles about China and Korea, and our participation in the movement against the Yugoslavia war. And yet you would be happy to have Gebhardt, an actual accomplice in actual imperialist war, on the platform. Well, each to his own taste. Note that I'm not even saying I would necessarily be in favor of kicking Gebhardt off the platform, repulsive as he is. It would depend.
Anyway, now I know why I didn't get a valentine from you.
LP